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This could well be the single weirdest E3 announcement. 1980s action-movie “star” Sybil Danning is making a “cloud-based” action shooter. It’s called Ruger, and will be loosely based on the 1989 movie L.A. Bounty. The baffling press release states: “While it is still early in the development cycle, Ruger will be a highly stylized, almost comic book styled shooter. The story, written by Sybil is being held close to the vest but watching LA Bounty is sure to shed at least some light to what it’s all about. There is definitely room in the faux-retro market for more names than Tarrantino and Rodriguez, and Sybil Danning certainly has the pedigree to be credible. Incredibly the game and a Ruger film are being developed simultaneously.”

I feel kind of like a useless sac of internet-waste adding no more to a topics discussion than just that, but I don’t know that there’s anything else to say, really. Kudos to Jim Rossignol for managing to construct a couple sentences on the topic. That’s professionalism.

Seconded. All of the major style trends of the eighties were truly awful. It’s a decade defined by bad lighting, bad ‘ozone layer be damned’ hair, wind machines, smoke, terrible over produced synthesizer music with no bass, huge shoulder pads.
And it infected everything. Watch Ghostbusters and try not to laugh when Gozer the destroyer shows up. An otherwise timeless film suddenly takes a detour into awful fashion to illustrate the arrival of a supposedly terrifying demon. Most of these trends started innocently enough, and were kinda cool back in ’82. But imagination was in very short supply back then.

The 80’s were awesome! Has there ever been another decade to match the bind-blowing action movies of the time? It was an age when women were there to be fucked or rescued, the men were gigantic steriod pumped slabs of muscle and peabrain designed for tearing their enemies limb from limb while spouting awesome one-liners. There shall never be another decade like it.

OK, I see a Mossberg and a Colt, but no Ruger. Oh, I SEE, it’s her name.

It’s certainly true that decent films can be made into rubbish games. I suppose now’s as good a time as any to find out if the reverse is true. Not that I’ve ever seen this film; perhaps it’s an unfeted masterpiece.

Please tell me they will actually use the likeness of Wings Hauser for the main character. And Tim Thomerson needs a cameo in there somewhere as well. Speaking of whom, why the hell aren’t there Dollman and Trancers games?